The main foci of this collection are theories of Rabbinic category-formation, on the one side, and literary-analytical problems, on the other. PART ONE: How a system such as animates the Rabbinic canon selects and organizes its data forms the key to understanding the cogency of the whole: what data register, what do not? PART TWO: The problems of literature now center on those compositions and even compositions of a given document that ignore the documentary protocol of the compilation in which they occur. PART THREE: The four ways in which an author of a composition for Rabbinic compilation could link sentence to sentence, thought to thought, to form a coherent statement thus the 'logics of coherent discourse.'.
ISBN: | 9780761823742 |
Publication date: | 11th December 2002 |
Author: | Jacob Neusner |
Publisher: | University Publishing Association an imprint of UPA |
Format: | Hardback |
Pagination: | 334 pages |
Series: | Studies in Judaism |
Genres: |
Biography: religious and spiritual Judaism |